J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

I've spent half my life on planes. I have a lot of love for New Zealand, though. That is where the really arty, whimsical side of the family resided - in Hobbitland.

O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!

When I told my mom I was going to audition for 'The Hobbit,' she said, 'Well, you've always loved Tolkien.' And she was right.

I read Tolkien when I was 11. I read 'The Hobbit' and the trilogy on a road trip with my family. I identified with the nonhumans in those books, and it never occurred to me why that was.

No one's comfortable with losing.

Take me home," Snow White said. "Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out.

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.

(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

It's stupid to miss a thing when there are so many people to miss instead, but I miss this train already, and all the others that carried me through the city, my city, after I was brave enough to ride them. I brush my fingers over the car wall, just once, and then jump.

Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it’s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

There is always something to miss, no matter where you are.

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.

All this money can't buy me a time machine.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.